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Sack

צִקָּלֹןStrong’s H6861

tsiqlon (tsiq-lon)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tsiqlon is the Hebrew word usually translated “sack his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.”
2 Kings 4:42 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sack, bagmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
  • in sack his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Kings 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    צִקָּלֹן tsiqlon · sack

    1) sack, bag 1a) meaning uncertain

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “sack” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    SACK, noun

    [Latin saccus. Heb. See the verb to sack ]

    1. A bag, usually a large cloth bag, used for holding and conveying corn, small wares, wool, cotton, hops, and the like. Genesis 42:25
    2. The measure of three bushels.
    All definitions and other forms of “sack”

      SACK, noun

      A species of sweet wine, brought chiefly from the Canary isles.

        SACK, noun

        [Latin sagum, whence Gr. But the word is Celtic or Teutonic.]

          SACK, verb transitive

          To put in a sac or in bags.

            SACK, verb transitive

            [From comparing this word and sack a bag, in several languages, it appears that they are both from one root, and that the primary sense is to strain, pull, draw; hence sack a bag, is a tie, that which is tied or drawn together; and sack to pillage, is to pull, to strip, that is, to take away by violence.]

              SACK, noun

              The pillage or plunder of a town or city; or the storm and plunder of a town; as the sack of Troy.

                Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

                Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.